Feminine
🏝️

isla

Sentences
An user
Actualmente   es   una de   las   ciudades   con   mayor   población   en   la   isla
🏝️
 .

By now, it is the town with the greatest population.

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An user
En   el   verano
🏖️
 ,  grandes   zonas   de la   isla
🏝️
   están   libres   de   hielo
🧊
   y   nieve
❄️
 .

In the summer, large areas of the island are free of ice and snow.

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An user
Así   se   produce   el   fenómeno   de   efecto  " isla
🏝️
   de   calor   urbana ".

This is how the phenomenon of the "urban heat island" effect occurs.

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An user
Es   Endemismo   de la   isla
🏝️
   de   Nueva   Bretaña ,  Papúa Nueva Guinea
Papúa Nueva Guinea
 .

It is endemic to the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

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Originalmente   la   isla
🏝️
   y   el   edificio   solamente   podían   ser   alcanzados   mediante   embarcaciones .

Originally the island and the building could only be reached by boats.

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Meaning

  1. (feminine) island (area of land surrounded by water)
  2. (feminine) block (group of urban lots of property)

Concepts

island
🏝️
isle
islet
skerry

key cay

block
island
🏝️
land
Shimane
Synonyms

islas
C1
par
A1
doble
B1

ínsula

isleta
islote
tierra
A1
Translations

isola
🏝️
Insel
île
🏝️
ilha
🏝️
eiland
🏝️
illa
🏝️
insula
🏝️

νησί

ada
🏝️
جزيرة
🏝️
girav
🏝️

iscla

Eiland

νήσος

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
is‧la
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈisla/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish
isla
Inherited from Latin
īnsula
Cognate with Catalan
Catalan
illa
Cognate with French
French
île
Cognate with Galician
Galician
insua
Cognate with Italian
Italian
isola
Cognate with Portuguese
Portuguese
ínsua
Cognate with English
English
isle
In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish isla, from Vulgar Latin *īsula, from Latin īnsula (compare Catalan illa, French île, Galician insua, Italian isola, Portuguese ínsua). Doublet of ínsula, a borrowing. Cognate with English isle.

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